Example sentences of "[was/were] killed [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further eight skiers were killed in accidents close to the prepared piste , and 18 were killed climbing or skiing in open country . |
| 2 | TWENTY people were shot and hacked to death in a Johannesburg township in the worst incident of violence in South Africa since August 1990 , and 10 others were killed in settlements elsewhere in the city , writes Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg . |
| 3 | Two Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli army patrols on the West Bank and a man and woman were killed in Gaza allegedly for collaboration with the Israeli authorities . |
| 4 | On the same day 15 other people were killed in violence elsewhere in the state . |
| 5 | It developed a special affinity after its co-ordinator , police sergeant Harry Lawrie , was killed on Ben More in 1987 when a Wessex from the base crashed on a rescue mission . |
| 6 | ‘ He was killed by assassins just like the bastards nearly murdered me at Le Coq d'Or ! ’ |